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Skip bombing - 8/29/2003 11:23:44 PM

Curval

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In the manual, under "Effects of Altitude Selection" it talks about skip bombing...where you set the altitude of the attacking bombers to 100 feet.

I have just discovered that if you do so...even though the experience is above 80 for your groups...don't expect them to even take-off to go after a carrier TF..especially if the enemy has alot of CAP up.

Swoop and I squared off barley 5 hexes from each other...I had more carriers than him...but two were Light Carriers (I am Japanese player). All of my Vals groups had 80+ experience and I really wanted an accurate drop on him, so despite the dangers I set them all to skip bomb the turn before.

None of my strikes took off and a heavy and a light carrier of mine were damaged relatively heavily.

BUT...he lost over 100 SBDs and about 50 TBMs...the bulk of his air wings.

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- 8/30/2003 1:48:32 AM

pasternakski

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I believe that only medium and heavy bombers can skip bomb. Anything else assigned to 100 feet will try to strafe, and I don't think that carrier based bombers can do that, either.

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- 8/30/2003 4:31:37 AM

bilbow

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[QUOTE=Curval]In the manual, under "Effects of Altitude Selection" it talks about skip bombing...where you set the altitude of the attacking bombers to 100 feet.

I have just discovered that if you do so...even though the experience is above 80 for your groups...don't expect them to even take-off to go after a carrier TF..especially if the enemy has alot of CAP up.

Swoop and I squared off barley 5 hexes from each other...I had more carriers than him...but two were Light Carriers (I am Japanese player). All of my Vals groups had 80+ experience and I really wanted an accurate drop on him, so despite the dangers I set them all to skip bomb the turn before.

None of my strikes took off and a heavy and a light carrier of mine were damaged relatively heavily.

BUT...he lost over 100 SBDs and about 50 TBMs...the bulk of his air wings.[/QUOTE]

Multi-engine bombers only can skip-bomb. They also won't fly unless morale and experioence is quite high, t least over 80. They can be effective, but will take a horrendous morale loss in doing so. In one such raid severl B17 squads with 90+ morale and 80+ experience acheived good hits of a Jap transport TF at sea, but ended up with morale of only 10 and were laid up for a month before flying again. Skip bombing is not worth it save a real emergency situation.

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